All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. It is then that Roy, clutching a white dove, says: Despite being in a position of power in Blade Runner’s final moments, Roy chooses to save Deckard in an act of pity, as he can see himself in the other, even if Deckard himself is incapable of the same. “Quite an experience to live in fear isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.”Īpart from being a slave to a cruel, indifferent world, replicants like Roy are also a slave to time, which is too brief a candle to burn into a lasting legacy. For the first time, one sees Deckard gripped by fear – a fear that torments replicants throughout their existence, which is summed up in Roy’s emphatic lines:
Feral anguish consumes him and he chases Deckard like a wounded hound until there is a point in which Deckard is dangling from a metal strut on a roof, inches away from death. Sebastian’s quarters, Roy finds Pris, his only remaining friend, dead at the hands of Deckard. One sees Roy’s face contorted by rage, grief, and existential torment, which is followed by an act of Oedipal violence when Roy kisses his creator. By leading a group of renegade replicants, Roy attempts to negotiate for more life with his maker, who dismisses the idea, like a cruel god attempting to comfort their creation with empty clichés. Instilled with sentience and the ability to feel, Roy naturally yearns for more, as his potential is limited by the four-year life span embedded into his genetic coding, as a fail-safe measure by the Tyrell Corporation. Here is an article from that sums this up for me…. I don’t know if it is the art direction, the stellar acting between Harrison and Rutger, Ridley Scott’s direction or Vangelis’ haunting score, but there is something about this scene that is as iconic as any movie scene ever to me. It was perhaps Rutger Hauer’s greatest screen moment in his career, and he would end up passing away in 2019, the same year as his character passes away in Bladerunner. It features what many would say is the greatest death soliloquy ever. That gave way to me thinking about the first film, Bladerunner, and what about that movie sticks with me as one of my favorite movies of all time. I was pleased that he was so on top of something that I clearly was missing. I think there is great joy in watching our children become smarter than we are. Last weekend, my son Chris and I rewatched Bladerunner 2049 and he was kind enough to explain the parts that I still did not understand. Does it take an android to teach us how to to be human?
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